Posted on 08/10/2024 2:14:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
People around the former and would-be president see a candidate knocked off his bearings, disoriented by his new contest with Kamala Harris and unsure of how to take her on.
The Aug. 2 dinner at the Bridgehampton, N.Y., home of Howard Lutnick, the Cantor Fitzgerald chief executive, was a high-powered affair. Among the roughly 130 people who dined under an air-conditioned tent were some of Donald Trump’s wealthiest supporters, including the billionaire hedge-fund financier Bill Ackman, who sat next to the former president, and Omeed Malik, the president of another fund, 1789 Capital.
Some guests hoped Mr. Trump would signal that he was recalibrating after a series of damaging mistakes. He did not.
Before the dinner, answering a question that voiced concerns about the upcoming election during a small round-table discussion inside Mr. Lutnick’s house, Mr. Trump said, “We’ve got to stop the steal,” reviving yet again his false claims about the 2020 election — claims that his advisers have urged him to drop because they don’t help him with swing voters.
According to two people present, Mr. Trump himself also brought up his remark, made two days earlier at a gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists, in which he had questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity.
It had been a display of flagrant race-baiting that was egregious even by Mr. Trump’s standards, and it instantly reprogrammed America’s TV news chyrons: He falsely claimed that Ms. Harris had only recently decided to identify as Black for political purposes.
But Mr. Trump showed no regret. “I think I was right,” he told the rattled donors that Friday night.
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Must be Pulitzer time again!
Anonymous make belive concern trolls concerned.
This article is pure fiction, a twisted sexual fantasy for NY Slimes NPC readers.
Ny times aka make believe stories
It HAS TO BE a Babylon Bee story!
There is a pervasive idea in the media that Kamala Harris is in the lead now. Where is Trump? In Montana? Is that the best use of his resources?
Propaganda article.
I do agree, however, they were not prepared for the predictable switch to Kamala Harris.
Maggie is writing about her my little pony fever dream.
Not a word about that time they tried to blow Trump’s head off.
Looked like Trump’s mistake was to debate Biden in June. That was bait.
-PJ
It is not an idea, it is a lie to create a narrative and demoralize the weak through propoganda.
Without helping win Senate and House seats, Trump would be unable to pass his agenda for the country.
The New York Times IS the Lefts Babylon Bee.
And, they are not very good at it.
Cut it out. They were always going to dump Biden.
If you don’t understand he was in Montana to help unseat the lying lefty Senator Tester so we would have a senate majority, maybe you shouldn’t be posting.......
IMO, total bullshit by human debris.
The walls are closing in.
The Democrats are in total disarray. They have a candidate just like Hillary; her numbers go up when she stays out of sight and down when she doesn't.
They can't keep her hidden forever.
Pravda West strikes again...
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Indeed.
“The New York Times IS the Left’s Babylon Bee.”
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